Lower Elwha Tribal Community, Washington — lands ceded, 1855–1874

Lands ceded to the United States by treaty, law or executive order, 1855–1874, as Charles C. Royce recorded them in 1899 — 10,188 km² in 3 cessions across Washington.

A cession records when the United States took title — not the full extent of a homeland, and much land was taken without any treaty. The link between each cession and present-day nations is the one the U.S. Forest Service and the National NAGPRA Program’s dataset records; the nation’s own account comes first. Corrections: [email protected].

Cessions

Royce no.	Date	As the schedule names the parties	Sources
353	January 26, 1855	Sklallam · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
354	January 26, 1855	Sklallam · with 2 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule · treaty text
559	February 25, 1874	Sklallam (Skokomish) · with 3 other present-day nations	Royce’s schedule

No trail in Project Homeland crosses these lands yet. A map that shows one, traced in, would add it.

Maps on Native Routes that cover these lands

Cession areas: “Tribal Lands Ceded to the United States” (USDA Forest Service, National NAGPRA Program, EPA and Claudio Saunt, 2018; CC BY 4.0), digitized from Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (1899). Outlines simplified to about 1 km. Part of Project Homeland v0.5.2 — how it was made.